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Thread ID: 129139	2013-02-04 23:27:00	Micro SD + Android, Format from NTFS to FAT32	The Error Guy (14052)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1326667	2013-02-04 23:27:00	I bought a 32GB Micro SD card for a friend from china and whilst testing it I foolishly formatted it to NTFS, of course now Android won't recognize or mount it so how can I format it again from the phone? I don't have one of those microSD adapters :p Tried "format SD card" but that only did the internal SD Cheers	The Error Guy (14052)
1326668	2013-02-05 00:21:00	Should just be under Settings -> Storage -> SD Card. Must be an older device not to support NTFS, though?	inphinity (7274)
1326669	2013-02-05 00:40:00	S2 Running 4.2.1 - The internal SD is there, just not the external one. Because it's NTFS android won't mount it. I installed Paragon's android app which detects & mounts the SD card however it still doesn't show up in the system. I'm just going to make sure it's mounting in the right place though.	The Error Guy (14052)
1326670	2013-02-05 00:43:00	Should just be under Settings -> Storage -> SD Card. Must be an older device not to support NTFS, though? Some do support NTFS?	Agent_24 (57)
1326671	2013-02-05 00:48:00	Some do support NTFS? Certainly some do... my Transformer & S3 both do, so I'd presumed it was just the older versions of Android that didn't (my 2.x devices don't)... perhaps it's more device-specific than that, though.	inphinity (7274)
1326672	2013-02-05 00:53:00	It depends on the manufacturer to include support. Since the S3 and especially the transformer have USB OTG, it's likely that the device will have an NTFS drive slaved to it. Perhaps the stock sammy kernel for the i9100 has NTFS, I don't know. Google wants to move away from supporting external mounts entirely. Their reason being for performance and stability. I say it's so users are forced into the google clouse :rolleyes:	The Error Guy (14052)
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